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[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I like this guy but he's also such a baby boomer Reaganite (who actually served under Reagan). Yeah the Reagan years are over. No more easy cash cows to exploit.

But I still read his articles because he is good at summing things up (as long as you have the same viewpoint as him) and says hilarious stuff like this:

"Little doubt that feminism has made women troublesome"

He changed over to Team Russia a long time ago and now just writes articles about how bad the US is, that in the end basically serve as Russian propaganda if you really think about it.

But even with that said, he still says a lot of truths that get glossed over in the US. But he also pushes things to make us feel closer to civil war, and more and more hopeless, which are both attitudes Russia would love to encourage in the modern US populace.

Double-edged sword. Like most information sources these days. I wonder if the news was actually more truthful 20 years ago, or if that's just an artifact of memory before I woke up to the reality of how news media functions.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Also these lines in the article:

Francis’ memoir reminds me that the world he and I knew is over and done with, and that the kind of education that we got, him more than me, is no longer attainable.

The memoir reminds me that the rise of a poor Irish boy, via a Jesuit education and an Oxford scholarship to the presidency of America’s most prestigeous college, and my own rise to Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, normally a post conveyed to members of the financial elite, is something that no longer takes place

That makes me roll my eyes. And also he misspelled 'prestigious'.

[–]robertrobot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is hilarious, nice eye spotting the misspelling. I find myself in agreement with your first post as well. I think maybe, the news today compared to before is a lot more sensational and negative, I don't think truthful is a good adjective to describe it either way. The US has lost many local newspapers, so there is also that, but which is a pretty large open niche IMHO

[–]Vigte 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He's a part of the Council for National Policy alongside the likes of Jerome Corsi, Oliver North, Phyllis Schlafly, Stan Monteith, Mike Pence, Rudy Guliani, Erik Prince and more assorted scum.

I'm sorry but I have to say it: PCR is a wolf in sheeps clothing, the best thing to do is let him fade into obscurity.